Show BALANCED FEEDING FOR HENS no ono one grain combines CombIne 3 the necessary proportions of ingredients to produce eggs by W it GILBERT balanced feeding Is an attempt to provide for all the wants of fowls bodies so as to enable them to yield the best profits to their owners at a minimum cost no ono one grain meal or vegetable by itself combi combines ies the necessary proportions of ingredients to produce eggs in profitable quantities scientific experiments have proved that to keep alive an ordinary lien hen weighing six pounds two ounces of dry food per day Is required but these two ounces are not enough to put on flesh or to make eggs they are only enough to keep up the wear and tear of existence more afore food has to bo be supplied for egg making and it if this food Is richly charged with the component parts of an egg the greater and easier will be the prodoc tion the only chemical properties of food that wo we need trouble about are the flesh and muscle making principles known as album enolds ana the heat and fat making principles known as carbohydrates the ration that both science and experiments peri ments have decreed to be the best Is 4 to 6 5 parts of fat or heat making pods to one part of nosh flesh making food and the total amount of food require ment for the keeping of a lien hen in lay ing condition Is from 23 to 1 24 14 1 ounces per week eek according to her size |